Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok says he doesn't 'see any basis' for Durham investigation
by Mike Brest, Breaking News Reporter |
| September 17, 2020 02:34 PM
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok questioned the need for U.S. Attorney John Durham's criminal inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation.
In the midst of a book tour, Strzok, who played a key role in opening the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was later spun into Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation, appeared for an interview on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday and said he can't see "see any basis" for the so-called "investigation into the investigators."
"Well, look, I know that I haven’t done anything wrong, let alone illegal. Nor had anybody else that I worked with around the senior leadership, around the team in 2016, so I’m not quite sure why his investigation is still continuing, because I just don’t see any basis for it," he said.
Strzok, who was fired from the bureau in August 2018 after anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with an FBI lawyer came to light, went on to reference Nora Dannehy, a prosecutor who had been working with Durham before resigning from the Justice Department last week. Unnamed sources told the Hartford Courier, which broke the story, that her decision to leave her job was in part due to a fear that political pressure could force them into producing a report before the November election, but her farewell email to colleagues did not mention it.
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